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Small Polychrome Seed Jar by Nampeyo - C3776G
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Tue, Jun 14th 2016, 5:14pm
When Nampeyo was first making pottery, she was most likely making only utilitarian wares as that is what she had learned from her mother, White Corn, who passed away sometime between 1901 and 1909. Nampeyo's mother and grandmother were her mentors. It was not until Nampeyo's husband Lesso was working with the excavation party at the prehistoric Hopi Sikyatki Pueblo ruins, that Nampeyo was introduced to the magnificent prehistoric Sikyatki pottery shards that would influence her life's work and that of her descendants.